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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.

Clare Boothe Luce

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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.
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I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
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H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
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Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.
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Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.
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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, Let's use the missiles. They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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A great man is one sentence.
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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.
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[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
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